Pamela Fox
Principal Cloud Advocate (Python)
California, United States
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Top SchoolPamela Fox is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 15 years of experience helping Python developers adopt and productively use Azure and AI services. She blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—deploying Django and Flask apps with Bicep and PostgreSQL—with front-end craftsmanship from her days building interactive learning tools and browser-based live coding environments. Pamela has led large-scale education initiatives at Khan Academy (140+ hours of curriculum and the AP CS Principles course) and taught CS at UC Berkeley, giving her a rare mix of production engineering and pedagogy. Her open-source contributions span developer-facing libraries like Flask-SQLAlchemy and Flask-Admin as well as useful utilities such as lscache, reflecting attention to developer experience and type safety. She’s built and scaled systems as a former CTO at Woebot and helped launch early features at Coursera and Google, showing a consistent track record of shipping user-focused platforms. Based in California with an MS and BS in Computer Science from USC, she pairs technical leadership with an educator’s instincts for clarity and accessibility.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Southern California
English
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Github Skills (46)
localstorage10
javascript10
postgresql10
bicep10
pytest10
python10
jinja210
django10
testing10
css10
user-interface10
microsoft-azure10
p5js10
flask-ask10
cicd10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
pamelafox/lscache
Oct 2010 - Jun 2022
A localStorage-based memcache-inspired client-side caching library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 101 commits, 30 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Pamela primarily focused on implementing the core functionality of the `lscache` library, which includes setting, getting, and removing items from localStorage. Their work involved writing JavaScript code to interact with localStorage, handling JSON serialization, and managing item expiration. They also created a demo file to showcase the library's usage with examples of how to set, retrieve, and delete cache entries. Finally, they updated the demo to demonstrate use of `lscache` and added unit tests using QUnit to verify the library's functionality.
memcacheclient-sideclient-side-cachingcachingcache
gdisf/teaching-materials
Dec 2010 - Feb 2018
GDI SF - Web Development and Programming Curriculum
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:227 commits, 25 PRs, 111 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pamela primarily worked on the front-end of the project by adding Google Analytics tracking code to the HTML and CSS curriculum materials. They also updated the HTML for the individual lessons to reference a one-page index, implemented Twitter Bootstrap CSS, and performed various UI tweaks. These changes included adding a Google Font, making the text and other page elements look better.
curriculumworkshop-materialsjqueryworkshopcss
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